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November 4, 2007

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SQL SERVER – Cursor to Kill All Process in Database SQL SERVER – Find Stored Procedure Related to Table in Database – Search in All Stored procedure SQL SERVER – Shrinking Truncate Log File – Log Full SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Cursor SQL SERVER – UDF – Function…

SQL SERVER – Introduction and Example for DATEFORMAT Command

September 28, 2007

Pinal Dave

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SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts

While doing surprise code review of Jr. DBA I found interesting syntax DATEFORMAT. This keywords is very less used as CONVERT and CAST can do much more than this command. It is still interesting to learn about learn about this new syntax. Sets the order of the dateparts (month/day/year) for…

SQL SERVER – UDF – User Defined Function – Get Number of Days in Month

September 8, 2007

Pinal Dave

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SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Scripts

Following User Defined Function (UDF) returns the numbers of days in month. It is very simple yet very powerful and full proof UDF. CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_GetNumDaysInMonth] ( @myDateTime DATETIME ) RETURNS INT AS BEGIN DECLARE @rtDate INT SET @rtDate = CASE WHEN MONTH(@myDateTime) IN (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10,…

SQL SERVER – 2005 – Use of Non-deterministic Function in UDF – Find Day Difference Between Any Date and Today

August 23, 2007

Pinal Dave

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SQL DateTime, SQL Error Messages, SQL Function, SQL Scripts

While writing few articles about SQL Server DataTime I accidentally wrote User Defined Function (UDF), which I would have not wrote usually. Once I wrote this function, I did not find it very interesting and decided to discard it. However, I suddenly noticed use of Non-Deterministic function in the UDF.…

SQL SERVER – Find Monday of the Current Week

August 20, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts, SQL Utility

Very Simple Script which find Monday of the Current Week SELECT DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk,0,GETDATE()), 0) MondayOfCurrentWeek Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

SQL SERVER – Find Last Day of Any Month – Current Previous Next

August 18, 2007

Pinal Dave

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SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Utility

Few questions are always popular. They keep on coming up through email, comments or from co-workers. Finding Last Day of Any Month is similar question. I have received it many times and I enjoy answering it as well. I have answered this question twice before here: SQL SERVER – Script/Function…

SQL SERVER – UDF – Function to Get Previous And Next Work Day – Exclude Saturday and Sunday

July 23, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

While reading ColdFusion blog of Ben Nadel Getting the Previous Day In ColdFusion, Excluding Saturday And Sunday, I realize that I use similar function on my SQL Server Database. This function excludes the Weekends (Saturday and Sunday), and it gets previous as well as next work day.